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notifications today is day 279. We're continuing to talk about the Lord's name and the holiness

of the Lord's name. Yesterday we talked about the fact that God's name is holy

and that we have to be incredibly careful when it comes to anything involving the Lord's name,

when it comes to blasphemy, when it comes to respect for the Lord's name, when it comes to promises,

and even going so far as to the abuse of God's name, all of those things are so important for us.

We absolutely have to, have to avoid them and have to always treat the Lord's name, not just with

respect, but as it truly is, as it is holy. Now, today we're talking about taking the name of the

Lord in vain, and we're looking at this. We're looking at how

the Second Commandment forbids false oaths. We recognize that perjury can be an abuse of God's

name or taking the Lord's name in vain. But we can actually, in some ways, in some context,

we can make oaths that we can invoke the Lord's name when we intend to tell the truth. But we are

never obliged. We are never obliged to take the Lord's name in vain. Right. So just a quick thing to

get out of the way. When someone says, you know, I said the name of God without meaning it. And I

didn't say it in vain. I just said it like without meaning it. I'm like, okay, that's kind of what in vain means. In vain implies or indicates taking the Lord's name without

meaning it or like we're talking, we're going to talk about today, which is taking a false oath.

So calling upon the Lord's name and not intending to follow through with whatever I promise

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